More & More Obama Broken Promises: 1300 & Counting!

Mar.24,2010

The Official list of Obama Administration Scandals!

“An Endless String of Broken Promises – They raised hopes through the roof. Once in power, they kept virtually none of those vows… To leftists, they swore they’d do all the things they’d long pushed but President George W. Bush prevented: Close Gitmo. End wiretapping. Milk the rich. Tax carbon emissions. Ditch “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Reform immigration. To moderates, even some conservatives, they vowed to drain Washington’s ethical swamp. Transcend partisanship. Win in Afghanistan (the war from which they’d been telling us Iraq was a needless distraction). Neutralize enemies like Iran through diplomacy. Most of all, they vowed to put Americans back to work. Two years later, we’re still waiting… So what’s their game plan? Rinse and repeat…”

Adam, it certainly is an “Endless String” of broken promises! We have the “whole string” here for you on this list!

By Peter Andrew
ConservativeAmerican.org

The list below contains all of the Obama Administration mistakes, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we called it “the Official Obama Administration Scandals List.” This list covers Barack Obama and his pals from day one through September 4th, 2011. At that point, the list was discontinued. We present this list to you as an accurate and complete historic detail of the Legacy of Lies President Obama leaves behind for the time period starting with his youth and going until September 4th, 2011. Not responsible for any broken or out-of-date links. They worked when we posted them. Some may redirect you to the wayback machine.

You can visit all the pages of the Official Obama Administration Scandals List!

ObamaCare Nightmare Gets Worse After Health Summit! 2/24/2010 The National Legal & Policy Center says you better hold on to your wallet: “The plan is costly and its burden will fall on many Americans, not just “the rich.” Among its more controversial features, the White House proposal retains, in scaled-down form, a key Senate provision: a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost (“Cadillac” or “gold-plated”) health insurance plans originally scheduled to go into effect in 2013… Finding ways to pay for this won’t be easy… One possible revenue source is the Senate excise tax on high-cost insurance policies… Being subject to an excise tax presumably makes consumers more price-conscious and induces doctors to think twice about ordering tests or conducting surgeries of dubious necessity. On paper, this makes sense. In reality, many will pay. Formally, insurers rather than customers make tax payments. But inevitably they would pass the extra cost onto plan enrollees in the form of higher premiums. It’s hard to see how middle-class families would avoid getting slammed, despite Obama’s assurances to the contrary. Indeed, Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, in evaluating the Senate bill, concluded that 84 percent of the total tax burden in 2019 would be borne by households making less than $200,000.

It’s All About the “O” – ObamaCare Nightmare Summit! 2/24/2010 The Washington Times: “President Obama pledged to “listen” at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he’d be listening to his own voice. By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes – nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes, according to a “talk clock” kept by GOP aides. From the beginning, no one could agree on anything, even how much time each side had used. When a miffed Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, pointed out early on that Democrats had controlled 52 minutes to Republicans’ 24, Mr. Obama jumped in to dispute even that…” The Associated Press made this funny observation, “President Barack Obama’s televised health care meeting with lawmakers Thursday fulfilled a promise he broke before he kept. Now Obama has made good on the pledge — at least for one day.” As Michelle Malkin likes to say, Obama’s promises have expiration dates!

New Obama Logo Scandal! Missile Defense Agency 2/25/2010 Check this out…
With Obama, EVERYTHING is politicized. The Drudge Report and MillionGossip display the new logo for the Missile Defense Agency. It looks a lot like Obama’s campaign logo and even resembles an Islamic Flag! UPDATE 2/28/2010: More here from the Washington Times.

Obama Lies About Free Market Belief 2/25/2010 The website, “The Liberal Lie, The Conservative Truth,” shouts “You Lie!” on this one: “Barack Obama the socialist…speaking at a business round table made the following claim: “Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, I am an ardent believer in the free market.” This is one of the most blatant lies that Obama has told since taking office. Let’s look at the proof of his supposed belief in the free market. Since becoming President, Obama has: – Bailed out countless banks and financial institutions rather than letting the free market solve the problem then not allowing the institutions to pay back the monies so that government would have a share holders stake and control in the institutions – stepped in taking control of GM and Chrysler even firing and hiring CEOS, dictating the operation of the companies, the production and even the amount of advertising that would be allowed under the government controlled bankruptcy…”

Obama Repeats “Same Health Choices as Congress” Lie 2/25/2010 The “You Lie!” shout this time comes from GD Critter: “Obama claimed earlier this week that his plan gives ordinary Americans the same health care choices as the members of Congress. Presumably that also means at the same cost Congressmen pay — $503 per year for full coverage, including drugs.”

Obama Hypocrisy on Interrogation Techniques 2/25/2010 Remember how Obama promised no more so-called “torture?” One way he has found around this is to let the Pakistani’s handle the “dirty work.” Hot Air reports, “a fact not lost on former Bush press secretary Dana Perino. Quote: The Obama administration is working with Pakistani intelligence to interrogate Mullah Baradar, reportedly the Taliban’s number-two man. We’ve been a little underwhelmed by the Left’s reaction to this news… the Pakistanis are not subject to President Obama’s ban on interrogation techniques that go beyond those authorized in the Army Field Manual. The Pakistanis don’t know the Army Field Manual — and probably think the enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, used in years past against certain al-Qaeda detainees such as Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, are rather quaint… We suspect … the Obama administration worries day and night about being accused by its base of Bush/Cheney-like behavior, even though it understands that many Bush-administration policies were effective in protecting the country. They needn’t worry. The Left has already shown that it will avert its eyes when it’s Obama calling the plays. (end Perino Quote) Hot Air adds, “Actually, according to the LA Times, the CIA’s worried not that Pakistan is being too hard on Baradar but that they’re being too easy… “

Obama’s “Summit of Broken Promises” 2/25/2010 The Heartland Institute’s Health Care News says, “The president’s first broken promise this week is perhaps the most obvious: the promise that he would present a bill in advance of this summit, one that would include bipartisan ideas, for his opponents in Congress to review. He did not do this… No actual legislation was posted online, and none has been shared with the American people or Congress. When the Congressional Budget Office was asked by many members to provide an assessment of the cost of the president’s proposal, CBO responded, “CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail.” As always with policymaking, the devil is in those details. By not sharing them, Obama shows once again that this summit is about political posturing, not good policy.” The institute says Obama also renewed his broken promise not to fund abortions with your tax dollars.

Obama Breaks Promise He Flip-Flopped On and Kept…Wait, What?! 2/25/2010 John Lott catches this bit of nonsense from the White House: “I have written many times about how different parts of the Democrats’ government takeover of health insurance will raise costs. Dems have focused on insurance taxes that would reduce demand for health as their way of reducing costs, but now that is gone also. Of course, Obama promised in the campaign not to use such taxes, then he promised to use them, now he isn’t using them. So Is this returning to his original promise or breaking a broken promise?” Beats us, John.

Obama Aides Meet With Catholic Bashers 2/26/2010 Socialists and Marxists have no need for religion. From Bill Donohue at the Catholic League: “People of faith, especially Christians, have good reason to wonder exactly where their interests lie with the Obama administration. Now we have the definitive answer. In an unprecedented move, leaders of a presidential administration are hosting some of the biggest anti-religious zealots in the nation. No one opposes men and women who are incidentally agnostic or atheist from expressing their concerns, even to the White House. The problem with today’s meeting is the profile of the coalition’s members and organizations. On the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America are such activists as Robert Boston, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Susan Jacoby and Michael Newdow. Member organizations include American Atheists, the American Ethical Union and the Council for Secular Humanism. All of these persons and groups have a track record of open hostility to people of faith, and some have been downright bigoted in their assault on Christianity, especially Catholicism.” — ConservativeAmerican.org wants to know if Obama Aides would meet with anti Islam groups? Or how about groups who hate Jewish people? You know the answer. Of course not. So why are they so willing to meet with anti-Christian groups? Hmmm?

Transparency? How About a Secret Obama $30-Billion Slush Fund?! 2/26/2010 The American Thinker: “Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund – The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama’s rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry’s best year ever in Washington). David Cho writes in the Washington Post: Senior Treasury officials have told the financial bailout program’s inspector general that they are considering excluding a new $30 billion small-business lending initiative from the watchdog office’s oversight. The message, delivered at a meeting last week, sparked outrage from Republicans, who accused the Treasury of taking revenge on the watchdog for writing a series of scathing reports. Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the bailout, urged the Treasury to reconsider, arguing in a letter that the department was acting “contrary to the best interests of the taxpayer…”

More Latino Let-Down: Obama Illegal Checker Software Works 46% of the Time!

2/26/2010 Fox News: “The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found. The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can’t detect identity fraud, Westat said. “Clearly it means it’s not doing it’s No. 1 job well enough…” — ConservativeAmerican.org feels this is probably a broken promise. No doubt the President assured his illegal voters that it wouldn’t work this good! 46% of the time, the amount this thing works, the illegals are not hired. His team is no doubt working hard to fix…er, uh, break this software!

Obama Breaks Promise to Continue the 9/11 Health Bill 2/26/2010 In January, members of the New York Congressional delegation were told the Obama Administration would no longer support the 9/11 health bill. Earlier this month, first responders 9/11 widows and others gathered at ground zero to protest the broken promise. Protesters say the letter they got from Obama just two months earlier is “a joke” and “not worth the paper it is written on.” The Feel Good Foundation is ticked off…[VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

Obama’s Cover-Up for Rahm Emanuel 2/26/2010 Scotty Starnes’s blog reports, “Obama hasn’t appointed an Inspector General to watch over the taxpayer’s bailout of Freddie and Fannie. The T.A.R.P. bailouts has an Inspector General but neither of these mortgage giants do. Did you also know that Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, use to be on the board of directors of Fannie Mae where he made some a lot of money? Just another Obama scandal being run on the American taxpayers. Freddie and Fannie continue to lose money and nobody is investigating it thanks to Obama’s refusal to appoint an Inspector General. It seems the Obama administration is waiting for the 10 year statue of limitations to take effect. Read liberal blogger, Jane Hamsher’s article about this corruption… Bloomberg Reports, ‘ Fannie Mae will seek $15.3 billion in U.S. aid, bringing the total owed under a government lifeline to $76.2 billion, after its 10th consecutive quarterly loss. The mortgage-finance company posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $16.3 billion, or $2.87 a share, Washington-based Fannie Mae said in a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.’ ”

Even CNN Catches Obama Flip-Flop Flip-Flop on Direct Meeting with Iranian Leader 2/28/2010 CNN’s Campbell Brown details in the recent video below the various contradictory statements President Obama has made about talking directly with Iran, without pre-conditions. His “rookie” is showing again! [VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

Blacks Say Obama Has Broken Promise to Fix Foreclosure Problem 2/28/2010 – From the Big Black News Blog: “Job losses and foreclosures are effecting everyone, but African Americans are being hit the hardest… But if you’re looking for help from America’s 1st Black president, forget it!” –ConservativeAmerican.org notes here: Obama is only half-black. Could this be why he’s only doing a half a**ed job for black Americans? — More from the Big Black News Blog: “But he did promise to fix the foreclosure mess that is threatening the stability of millions of American homeowners. But you can forget about that, too. Phyllis Caldwell, chief of Treasury’s Homeownership Preservation Office has hinted that Obama’s attempt to fix the foreclosure crisis, is O-V-E-R! When asked to reaffirm the President’s commitment to help nearly 3 to 4 million Americans facing foreclosure, she basically said… well… nothing.”

2/28/2010 From Red State’s ‘Favorgate’ coverage: “Alleged lawbreaker to be reelection campaign manager… President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign… managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions… Messina is the White House official who allegedly offered Democrat Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff a job in the Department of the Interior to drop his primary challenge of Sen. Michael Bennett in Colorado. Offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a violation of federal law. Romanoff refused, as did Rep. Joe Sestak, who just last week let slip that he too was offered a high-ranking Administration job – speculation is it was Secretary of the Navy – to bow out of his primary challenge of Sen. Arlen Specter.” UPDATE 3/17/2010: See Is Sestak Deal Obama’s Watergate? Scandal dated 3/17/2010 below. UPDATE 6/3/10: With the Sestak scandal blowing up, Romanoff now says he was offered three different jobs via email. Democrat websites continue to claim this is NOT a scandal at all.

Obama Appointment Scandal # 145 – Thomas Karl 2/28/2010 From the Beaufort Observer: “It looks like the Obama Administration is headed for another train wreck. President Obama has appointed Thomas Karl as head of the newly formed National Climatic Data Center. The stated purpose of the Center is to assemble data that helps honestly determine whether there is actually global warming and what the cause is if indeed any warming is found. The appointment comes as the wheels have come off the leading international “climate change” research institutions and people. Now it turns out that Karl has been linked to that same scandal. Click here to read the details. Once again we see a whopping blunder by Team Obama. At a time when credibility is the biggest issue around the climate debate it would seem that even a middle school student of physical geography would realize that the necessity is to restore the credibility of the “science” of global warming, or cooling, whichever the case might be. But to pull from the same cesspool from which the taint came is beyond the pale.”

Biden’s “This Job is Easy” Gaffe 2/28/2010 ANI reports at OneIndia, “President Obama’s deputy Joe Biden was caught in yet another foot-in-the-mouth situation when he was overheard telling a companion: “It’s easy being Vice President. You don’t have to do anything.” …Another voice was heard saying, “It’s like being the grandpa and not the parent.” Biden replied: “Yeah, that’s it!” His aides tried to cover-up the gaffe by saying that he was joking…”

Biden’s Latest Gaffe – Video from Last Century! 2/28/2010 Joe Biden said he refuses to accept the fact that the United States is not going to be a leader in “the 20th century…” uhm….missed a hundred years or so, there, Joey! [VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

Obama’s Latest Gaffe – What State Am I In? 2/28/2010 KDVR in Denver reports, “President Barack Obama took some good-natured ribbing from the audience when he misidentified Gov. Bill Ritter as the “terrific governor of California.” For the record, Ritter is governor of Colorado. Obama’s gaffe at a fundraiser for Sen. Michael Bennet caused laughter as Obama quickly caught his mistake Thursday. “Colorado, sorry,” he said according to a White House transcript of his speech released Friday. “Listen, East Coast time, it’s past my dinner,” he added.

Biden Lies About U.S. Nuclear Weapons – More Team Obama Hypocrisy! 2/28/2010 The Dallas Blog even wonders if this one is just another Biden Gaffe. “When he gave a speech at the National Defense University… by calling “for the elimination of all U.S. nuclear arms.” Maybe, Mr. Biden had forgotten that the rogue regimes of North Korea and Iran are presently hard-at-work developing their own nuclear arms arsenal to make for the potential of having ‘strike’ capabilities against the United States. But who can blame him, he’s fulfilling his role as the ‘comedian-in-chief’ for the Obama administration. The Washington Times reports that, “in a speech setting out the administration’s arms-control agenda, Mr. Biden also said the United States will continue to pursue President Obama’s call for the elimination of all U.S. nuclear arms, but defended spending $7 billion in the coming year to repair an ageing arsenal.” — ConservativeAmerican.org calls that having your nuclear cake and fishin’ too.

Obama Hypocrisy on Nuclear Option – Reconciliation! 2/28/2010 As Socialist-Democrats prepare this week to go nuclear on healthcare, Flopping Aces and Naked Emporer News line up the Democrat Hypocrisy!! They all spoke about how awful this option was in 2005 when Republicans tried it! Now they love it?! First Obama, then Hillary, then Socialist-Democrat Senators like Chris Countrywide Dodd and many others…[VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]UPDATE 3/1/2010: Team Obama doesn’t want you to call it the “nuclear option” anymore, or even “reconciliation.” Rush Limbaugh points out today the new buzz phrase they want you to use is “simple majority vote.” More BS from the BS-er in Chief. UPDATE 3/3/2010: In an astonishing burst of honesty from the ultra-liberal U.S. Socialist News and World Democrat Progressives Report, the headline reads: “Barack Obama Opposed Reconciliation Before He Supported It!” UPDATE 3/4/2010: The so-called “PolitiFact” website actually counts this as an Obama Flip-Flop!

Obama Flip Flops on His Own Record! 2/28/2010 The Washington Examiner: “In his speech at a Denver fundraiser…, President Obama repeated what has become a key talking point for Democrats — that the Senate “doesn’t get anything done” and the reason for that is that some Republicans, who “don’t believe in government,” are happy to block the administration’s initiatives because blocking government initiatives is “consistent with their philosophy.”… But it’s a striking flip-flop from Obama’s earlier statements in which he praised Congress’ ability to get things done. As a matter of fact, at a DNC fundraiser in California last October, Obama said his administration and Congress had accomplished so much that, “If we stopped today, this legislative session would have been one of the most productive in a generation.” And if you go to the White House website, you’ll find the president touting the very things that the administration and Congress have gotten done.”

Obama Flip Flops on Executive Pay (AGAIN) – Actually Creates One Job! 2/28/2010 From the Associated Press comes word that Barack Obama has approved huge executive compensation packages for the Government Motors CEO and even the former GM CEO! “General Motors Co. CEO Ed Whitacre will receive a salary of $1.7 million this year, plus stock awards that will bring his total pay package to $9 million at a later date… In a surprise announcement, GM also said former CEO Fritz Henderson has been rehired as a consultant. Henderson, who was forced out of the job in December, will work 20 hours a month and will be paid $59,090 a month, the company said.” — ConservativeAmerican.org’s calculator points out that’s $2,954.50 an hour Obama has agreed to pay Fritz Henderson. How’s that Hopey Changey stuff working now?! Obama actually created a job here!

Obama Appointment Scandal # 146 Andy Stern – O 3/1/2010 ACORN Board Member appointed to Obama Defecit Deceipt Commission! “the Obamanator has named his ACORN Board Member pal, SEIU President Andy Stern-O to serve on the deficit commission. He’ll supposedly help the group reach its foregone conclusion! Soooooo, ACORN is on the President’s Deficit Commission!!!” UPDATE 3/4/2010:Michelle Malkin has more on Andy Stern-O here.

More ObamaCare Nightmare Lies – Small Business Taxes will not go up to Pay for the Uninsured 3/1/2010 Verum Serum (Truth Serum) reports on 8 ObamaCare Nightmare lies. Most we already have on our list. Here’s a few to add: “…Depends on what the definition of a small business is. The President’s proposal defines this as any business with less than 50 employees. Any business with 51 or more employees which does not provide insurance will be required to pay a fee of $2,000 per worker if any of their employees receive subsidized coverage in the government insurance exchange (although the President’s proposal does except the first 20 employees from this calculation). In addition, any small business owner who earns more than $200,000 per year will be required to pay an additional .9% in payroll taxes for Medicare, and a brand new 2.9% tax on unearned income (interest, dividends, etc.).

More ObamaCare Nightmare Lies – Premium Costs for Individuals Will Drop “14 to 20%” 3/1/2010 Verum Serum (Truth Serum) reports, “the CBO reported that these premiums on average will increase by 10 to 13 percent, and for families who obtain coverage directly they will actually increase on average by 16%, or $2100 per year by 2016.”

More ObamaCare Nightmare Lies – ObamaCare Represents the Largest “Tax Cut for Health Care in History” 3/1/2010 Verum Serum (Truth Serum) reports, “This one IS new and it is my personal favorite. I suppose it’s true insomuch as no one else has ever had the gall to spin the creation of a $2+ trillion entitlement program as a “tax cut”. Personally I think the fact that the President proposes to provide tax-payer funded subsidies to families earning up to $88,000 the most fiscally irresponsible aspect of the entire plan. Coming a close second is the fact that over half of the cost of these “tax cuts” will be funded from reductions in Medicare spending, when Medicare itself faces insolvency within the next 10 years. If the White House wants to tout these subsidies – funded largely at the expense of seniors – as a “tax cut”…then I say go for it. In the now immortal words of Congressman Joe Wilson, President Obama: You lie.”

White House Spokesman Lies About Republican Health Care Plan! 3/1/2010 CentristNet Blog reports, “Despite the indisputable fact that the Republican Party posted its health care plan on gop.gov in October 2009, and the fact that the White House website itself has a link to the GOP plan, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer authored a blog post… smearing the GOP for not providing a health care plan prior to the vaunted health care summit set for Thursday.” ConservativeAmerican.org notes White House Der Spinmeister Robert Brothers Gibbs has made the same comment. These two know the GOP plan is out there. They also know if they say the GOP has no plan, reporters will repeat that message and some Americans will believe it. So… they lie! Conservative American Paul Ryan’s health care plan can be seen (online) by clicking here.

Another Big ObamaCare Nightmare Lie! 3/1/2010 From Free Republic: “The exact quote from the Obama press release is: “It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.” This is complete and ongoing BS. Congress and their staffers and friends don’t just get Cadillac care; they get Rolls Royce care… care no American will ever see. How good is the medical care for Senators and Congressmembers? There is a physician or nurse practitioner on duty in EVERY Senate and House office building all day/every day. Not just one for the Senators and one for House Members; there is a doctor or nurse practitioner on duty in EACH of the three Senate office buildings and one in each of the three House office buildings! There is even one on duty in the Capitol building itself. That means no Member or Senator is ever more than a 250 foot walk away from a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner who will see them immediately, with no waiting as soon as they walk in the door! It is called the “Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress.” All Members pay for instant health care and all their drugs is $503. No, not $503 per month. $503 per YEAR!”

Uganda Says Obama is Breaking a Promise to That Nation 3/1/2010 AFP reports a freeze on HIV spending has Africa concerned. “A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration’s programme has shifted away from emergency treatment. “George W. Bush is a hero in this country,” said Peter Mugyenyi, who heads Uganda’s Joint Clinical Research Centre, a leading AIDS treatment clinic… While PEPFAR expanded access to medicine, new HIV infections rose. So, when PEPFAR was up for renewal the new administration of President Barack Obama demanded greater focus on preventing new infections… Mugyenyi accuses the United States of breaking its promise to Uganda. “They have changed their programme very regrettably,” he said. “The number one thing is availability of treatment. Any other programme, whatever name they call it, will fail.”

Congressmen Say Obama Is Breaking Promise to Fix Fannie Mae, Tammy Faye & Freddie Mac 3/1/2010 From The Hill: “Republican Reps. Darrell Issa (Calif.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio) said it is “unacceptable” that the administration has not detailed how the companies (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) should be restructured… Issa and Jordan said the administration’s lack of a plan is a “broken promise” and the two members are calling for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hold hearings into the firms. “It appears that the administration is using Fannie and Freddie as a backdoor conduit for appropriating billions of dollars of taxpayer money without the consent of Congress,” the members write in a letter dated March 1. “If that is true, the American people have a right to learn about it in a transparent public forum where those responsible for the policy can be held accountable.”

Obama Eliminates or Deletes 23,000 Jobs with Broken Space Promises 3/1/2010 Red State has this one, “…23,000 workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will lose their jobs because of the shuttles’ retirement and the new proposal to cancel the development of new rockets and spacecraft. That sum includes 9,000 “direct” space jobs and — conservatively speaking — 14,000 “indirect” jobs at hotels, restaurants, retail stores and others that depend on activity at the space center, said Lisa Rice, Brevard Workforce president… PS: You know, if we absolutely had to elect a Democrat President, it’s a darn shame that we didn’t at least elect the one who said… “We cannot cede our leadership in space. That’s why I will help close the gap and ensure that our space program doesn’t suffer when the Shuttle goes out of service by working with Senator Bill Nelson to add at least one additional Space Shuttle flight beyond 2010; by supporting continued funding for NASA; by speeding the development of the Shuttle’s successor; and by making sure that all those who work in the space industry in Florida do not lose their jobs when the Shuttle is retired – because we cannot afford to lose their expertise.” …Oh, wait. We did.“

Obama Against Nuclear Option for Healthcare Before He Was For Nuclear Option 3/3/2010 Rush Limbaugh reveals today there is video of Barack Obama speaking out AGAINST using the nuclear option (so-called “reconciliation” or a “simple majority vote”) to pass health care reform. Now the Flip-Flop Obamanator is all for shoving his foot into the doorway to Socialism any way he can do it. He doesn’t care if his foot gets broken in the process.

Obama Appointment Scandal # 147 – Goodwin Liu (Lieu)

Shannon Bream at Fox News reports: “critics describe him as “brilliant,” but President Obama’s newly minted judicial nominee — law professor Goodwin Liu — will not have an easy time getting to the 9th Circuit bench… Liu has also aligned himself with progressive legal groups, including the American Constitution Society, where he is chairman of the board of directors. That’s prompting opponents to argue that Liu is “too far outside the mainstream” to take a seat on a court just one step below the Supreme Court of the United States. “He believes the Constitution is something judges can manipulate to have it say what they think culture or evolving standards of decency requires of it in a given day,” said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Liu opponents point to a number of his writings, including a book he co-authored in 2009 called “Keeping Faith with the Constitution,” in which the authors opine about their concept of judicial interpretation. “Applications of constitutional text and principles must be open to adaptation and change … as the conditions and norms of our society become ever more distant from those of the Founding generation.” That theme — that the Constitution’s text and principles must be adapted to changes in the world — repeats throughout the book and raises eyebrows among conservatives.” UPDATE 3/25/2010:Right Juris says this nut could become an Obama Supreme Court nominee someday! UPDATE 4/6/2010: Fox News reports the GOP has more ammo against Liu now as the nominee failed to submit 117 different documents to the Senate! Republicans say he was purposely trying to hide his numerous controversial writings and speeches!! UPDATE 5/19/11: The U.S. Senate actually stood up to one of President Obama’s foolish nominees today, rejecting Pro-Regressive Activist Judge Goodwin Lieu as a Federal Judge for the wacked out 9th Circuit Court! Finally, a win for our side. From FOXy Blondes News: “GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said the nominee’s writings “reveal a left-wing ideologue who views the role of a judge not as that of an impartial arbiter, but as someone who views the bench as a position of power.””

Obama’s Budget Trickery and Lies! 3/4/2010 The Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Obama claimed that “my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions—families, businesses and the federal government.” He said it is “fully paid for” and “brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades.” Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one. Mr. Obama’s fiscal assertions are possible only because of the fraudulent accounting and budget gimmicks that Democrats spent months calibrating. Readers can find the gory details in Mr. Ryan’s pre-emptive rebuttal nearby, though one of the most egregious deceptions is that the bill counts 10 years of taxes but only six years of spending.”

Obama Administration Delays Offshore Drilling it Pretends to Support 3/5/2010 – Another case of words, just words. Steve Everly at Fox News: “Another day, another delay. The Department of Interior is on a bureaucratic quest to ignore the public and stop any development of American energy. The latest example is Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement this week that the next offshore drilling program will not begin until 2012. The decision, made without voter approval and against the wishes of a clear majority of Americans, upends the existing lease plan that was set to begin this year, a plan that was crafted directly in response to public outcry in 2008 over record high gas prices. Ironically, it was that very energy crisis that forced then-candidate Barack Obama’s hand in August 2008 when, as he campaigned tirelessly for the presidency, he declared support for offshore drilling.

Team Obama To Flip-Flop on its Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop (following that?) on Terrorists on Trial in the U.S.

3/5/2010 – The Obama administration sent out signals this week that it soon will overrule itself and change back to Bush Administration policy of trying terrorists in military tribunals instead of civilian court. Eric Holder got to take the bullet on this one for the President. Obama has claimed he was not in the loop when Holder’s decision to try them in New York courtrooms was announced, an obvious fabrication. The Washington Post says Obama will cave to pressure and flip-flop back to having the trials in military courts. Rush Limbaugh today said it might be part of a plan to get Lindsey Graham to support the closing of Club Gitmo. The bottom line is the public wins if the trials are conducted by the military and the progressive Socialists, who appear unconcerned about the War on Terror, lose.

ObamaCare Nightmare to Expand Abortion Paid for by Taxpayers! 3/5/2010 Charmaine Yoest writes at the Wall Street Journal: “It’s now becoming clear that Barack Obama is willing to put everything on the table in order to be the president who passes health-care reform. Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding for abortion. Last September, the president promised that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.” Yet the legislation most likely to move forward in Congress would be the single greatest expansion of abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.” UPDATE 3-9-2010: More here from a site dedicated to the BS of ObamaCare.

Obama Perversion of the Law to Block use of Resources in Nine Western States! 3/5/2010 From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: “Jim DeMint took to the Senate floor and the pages of the Washington Times earlier this week to expose a plan by the White House to seize over 10 million acres of land in nine Western states. Using an obscure clause in the Antiquities Act of 1906, the Department of the Interior under Ken Salazar would designate the land as “monuments” in order to block the use of the resources in those states. DeMint correctly asserts that this is not only a perversion of the intent of the Antiquities Act, but also a huge power grab by the federal government at the expense of the states.” — Here’s the video of Jim DeMint: [VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

Obama Insults Great Britain – Damages Special Relationship! 3/7/2010 If Nile Gardiner is any indication, the Brits are bloody well mad at Barack Hugo Obama. His recent piece in the U.K. Telegraph lists Obama’s Top 10 Insults Against Britain! Number one on his list? The silly statement that the Obama Administration will keep the U.S. “neutral” in the dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands: “For sheer offensiveness it’s hard to beat last week’s incredible statement from the State Department on the Falklands dispute, not least considering the fact that 255 British soldiers died retaking the islands from Argentina in 1982. Here it is: “We are aware not only of the current situation but also of the history, but our position remains one of neutrality. The US recognises de facto UK administration of the islands but takes no position on the sovereignty claims of either party.” As I (Gardiner) wrote previously, over the course of the last year, we’ve seen a staggering array of foreign policy follies by this administration, from the throwing under the bus of the Poles and the Czechs over missile defence to siding with Marxists in Honduras. But this latest pronouncement surely takes the biscuit as the most brazen betrayal so far of a US ally.” –ConservativeAmerican.org asks, Are we missing something here? I thought the Progressive-Democrat-Socialists promised us the Great One would get the whole world to love us again? More Hopey Changey not working out so welley.

More Obama Deficit Lies! 3/7/2010 U.S. Senate Candidate Pat Toomey says the new Obama Budget has even more deficit lies inside! “The Congressional Budget Office announced that the budget proposed by Barack Hussein Obama will generate bigger deficits than Obama thinks every single year. Over the next ten years, this would total 1.2 trillion dollars more than what Obama’s office has estimated… Has anyone ever seen revenues that weren’t overestimated or costs that weren’t drastically underestimated? Please. The one thing that we can count on is that the CBO’s deficit estimate of 20.3 trillion dollars will more likely end up being 25 trillion. Speaking of incorrect: The CBO also said that Obama’s debt projections were optimistic. Gee, ya think? Obama, who inherited a flood of red ink from his predecessor George W. Bush, has promised to halve the 1.3-trillion-dollar deficit he took on by 2013. Instead, Obama will multiply the Bush deficit by more than 15 times! Yet another broken Obama promise. Anyone keeping count?” — ConservativeAmerican.org is keeping Count!!

Obama Asked Lefty Pals to Help Discredit Reports that Wind Energy Doesn’t Work!! 3/7/2010 More on the ever-expanding Climategate! Christopher Horner at Pajamas Media has this: “After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies. Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore’s company’s former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros’ Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama’s wind energy proposals. The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being withheld.” –ConservativeAmerican.org notes the moral to the story is: When your own lie doesn’t fly, Get others to Lie for You. Hmmm. I don’t remember being taught that one growing up, do you?! – More here from the American Thinker.

Massa Says Obama/Dems Kicked Him Out To Prevent His No Vote on Health Care! 3/8/2010 Fox News: “…outgoing New York Rep. Eric Massa (says) A “salty” comment made in the company of drunken staff members at a wedding reception on New Year’s Eve was all the Democratic “forces that be” needed to push him out of the House of Representatives and prevent him from possibly casting the vote that would kill health care reform, says outgoing New York Rep. Eric Massa.”

Obama Foul-Mouthed White House! 3/8/2010 David Axelrod, White House Senior Adviser, is the latest to let his foul mouth get the better of him. Numerous reports have come out about the trash talking Rahm Emanuel. It seems Axelrod is getting tired of rumors that he, Emanuel and President Obama are not all getting along that well. From the H.R. Huff-n-Stuffington Post: “White House senior adviser David Axelrod, who has been under a microscope lately after numerous reports have surfaced of internal turmoil in the West Wing, offered some sharply-worded comments to Politico’s Mike Allen about all the rumors swirling around Washington. “There aren’t 10 people outside of Washington who give a rat’s a** about any of this.” -ConservativeAmerican.org notes this is just another display of the lack of class and maturity in the Chicago-Style Street-Gang-Politics White House.

Obama Calls Himself ‘They’: “They are Obsessed with the Sport of Politics” 3/8/2010 So much for the broken promise that Jobs will be the President’s top priority! The ObamaCare Nightmare Tour stopped in Pennsylvania today and took the unusual step of referring to himself as “They.” Among the President’s more bizarre comments was to blast Washington and talk about it as if he isn’t there! He said those rascally people in Washington, “They are obsessed with the Sport of Politics!” Not him though! Nooooooooo. He’s not part of that. Give us a break. The most partisan U.S. Senator ever is now the most partisan U.S. President ever. Surely he was talking about himself, right?

ObamaCare NightMare Tour – Foolishly Still Blaming Republicans 3/8/2010 In Pennsylvania today, President Obama continued his foolish and transparent faux outrage at Republicans who he says are the ones preventing health care reform from passing. As everyone in America knows, Democrats controlled everything for an entire year and still have huge majorities in both the House and Senate. The Republicans have not had the power to stand in the way of anything. The truth, obviously, is that Democrats haven’t been able to agree with each other to get anything done. Rush Limbaugh today said Dems in the House are worried about voting for the Senate Health Care Bill. He says they don’t trust the dems in the Senate or the White House and they worry that no “fix” bills (designed to ‘fix’ problems House members have with the Senate bill as it is now) will ever actually happen! The problem, as you know Mr. President, is not a Republican one!

Obama’s Weatherization Stimulus Called “A Lie!” 3/8/2010 Rich Lowry writes at Real Clear Politics about the Obama magical weatherization plan “If you allocate money to weatherize homes,” Obama effused to an audience in Elkhart, Ind., “the homeowner gets the benefit of lower energy bills. You right away put people back to work, many of whom in the construction industry and in the housing industry are out of work right now.” And it’s a step to “a new energy future.” …Obama poured $5 billion into weatherization as part of last year’s stimulus and wanted to spend billions more… According to a Department of Energy inspector general report last month, “only 2 of the 10 highest funded recipients completed more than 2 percent of planned units.” New York had completed 280 out of 45,400 planned units as of December, Texas had completed 0 of 33,908, and California 12 out of 43,400. That’s 292 homes in three states with a total population of roughly 80 million. So much for the 87,000 jobs the administration promised “right away.”

Obama’s Savings Gaffe – Or Was He Stretching the Truth? 3/8/2010 Fox News: “President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark. “Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums and brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion dollars over the next decade because we’re spending our health care dollars more wisely,” Obama told an audience at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., a suburb north of Philadelphia. Obama was so proud of these cost-saving numbers in the latest version of health care reform, he delved into a bit of Washington-speak to back them up. “Those aren’t my numbers,” Obama said to the rising applause of the estimated 1,300 in attendance. “They are the savings determined by the Congressional Budget Office, which is the nonpartisan, independent referee of Congress for what things cost.” But the budget office did not say the Senate health care bill would save $1 trillion over the next decade — or even close to that figure. It estimated the bill would save $132 billion from 2010 to 2019, leaving Obama’s “next decade” estimate $868 billion short. When contacted about this disparity, a White House official said Obama meant to say the Senate bill would save $1 trillion in its second decade — a projection that would more closely match congressional analysts’ estimates.” -Rush Limbaugh pointed out the crowds for today’s events were hand-picked supporters, not a sampling of the public which is overwhelmingly against the ObamaCare Nightmare! ConservativeAmerican.org asks, Was this a gaffe? We’re so used to getting lies from him and he’s so used to telling them, how would we know?

Obama’s “No Shovels Ready” Jobless Recovery Scandal 3/9/2010 Fox Business Correspondent Charles Gasparino tells Sean Hannity, “I think it’s scary. I mean listen, what we have right now is the definition of a jobless recovery. Businesses are making money, GDP is improving, yet small businesses, I don’t mean the guy that mows your lawn, I’m talking about companies that employ between 200 and 2,000 people, those are the businesses that generally, out of a recession start hiring the most; they don’t want to hire… That gets to the scandal here. This is kind of a scandal. He promised us, Obama promised the American people, shovel ready jobs. Guess what, that money that was transferred to states, as part of the stimulus package, was suppose to go into these shovel ready jobs and it never happened. What they did was they hoarded the cash; they kept the paper pushers in Albany and California working and construction workers are out of work.”

Obama Hypocrisy on Health Care Props! 3/10/2010 Hot Politicians.com wants to know why it’s okay for Obama to parade out a group of white-lab-coated doctors as props to help sell his Socialist ObamaCare Nightmare, but it wasn’t okay when “President Barack Obama scolded Virgina Republican Rep. Eric Cantor for the stack of paper he brought with him to the health summit, calling it the type of political stunt that gets in the way of lawmakers having a serious conversation. Cantor said he brought a copy of the 2,400-page Senate bill and the 11-page proposal Obama posted online earlier in the week. Taking offense at the display as Cantor began to speak Thursday, Obama said the “truth of the matter” is that health care is a very complicated subject. He said all the Republican ideas discussed during the first half of the daylong summit would generate a bunch of paper, too.”

Obama Appointment Scandal # 148 Robert Chatigny 3/10/2010 – Fox News says: “The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting the candidate as a judicial loose cannon and after Republicans raised concerns about bias in favor of sex offenders. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny gained notoriety in 2005 for his role in trying to fight the execution of convicted serial killer and rapist Michael Ross, also known as The Roadside Strangler, whom Chatigny had described as a victim of his own “sexual sadism.” His conduct in that case, which included threatening to go after Ross’ attorney’s law license, as well as his ruling in 2001 against sex offender registries created under Megan’s Law, has caused a commotion among Republicans on the judiciary panel. “I’ve never seen conduct like this,” said a Republican source. “I’m shocked that the White House vetted this guy … and still put him up for a judgeship.” The nomination is relatively fresh. President Obama submitted his name Feb. 24 for a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, calling him a “first-rate” legal expert and “faithful” public servant.” – ConservativeAmerican.org translates: That means he’s a radical, the kind of people Obama has always chosen to be friends with.

Democrat Dick Durbin says President Obama is Lying About Health Insurance Costs! 3/10/2010 Watch the video here: [VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]
Durbin says anyone who would say if you pass healthcare reform, then next year’s health care premiums are going down, “I don’t think is telling the truth.” President Obama has said his ObamaCare plan will reduce most people’s premiums! I guess Obama isn’t telling the truth then! But, we already knew that.

More Obama Corruption – The Alexi Giannoulias 3/10/2010 Investors Business Daily and Consider Freedom report: “Barack Hussein Obama said (on CBS Sixty Minutes) “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,”… Not all those fat cats, apparently, are on Wall Street. Some are on Main Street in the president’s hometown. One of those “guys” recently won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Hussein Obama… He’s an Obama protege and fundraiser. His name is Alexi Giannoulias, and his family runs the Broadway Bank in Chicago, a financially troubled institution that the feds appear ready to seize and shut down. He is running for U.S. Senate from Illinois. Last Friday, Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the Giannoulias family stood to collect more than $10 million in federal tax refunds even if the bank does fail. “It’s quite likely the bank will fail,” the Chicago Tribune reported Giannoulias as saying last Wednesday, unless “they can raise the capital to keep the bank going,” an amount estimated at $85 million.”

Half-Black Obama Pot Calls Democrat Kettle Half-Black? Urges Dems not to Flip-Flop!! 3/10/2010 This Politico headline is LOL funny: “White House warns Democrats: Don’t flip-flop.” You have got to be kidding me! The king of flip-flops is telling others not to flip-flop? Give us a break already. From Politico: “Two senior administration officials said the White House is telling Democrats reconsidering their support for health care reform that they will pay the price for their original vote no matter what happens, so they should reap the political benefits of actually passing a law… “Flip-flopping is dangerous in this business,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide familiar with the strategy.” — ConservativeAmerican.org wonders if Democrats can actually hear themselves speak? If two Democrats speak in the woods and no one else is there to hear them, was anything actually said?

Obama Administration Sides with Palestine, Wonders Why Israel Doesn’t Do What It Says!! 3/14/2010 The audacity of failed diplomacy! The foul-mouthed Chicago-style Street Gang political adviser David Axelrod is upset with Israel. How dare they go against a U.S. Decision on where Israel can and cannot have settlements! Obviously it should be no surprise. Obama is the least Israel-friendly administration in decades. They openly side with Palestine and then fake being upset when Israel doesn’t kiss King Obama’s ring! From AFP and Yahoo!: “Israel’s announcement of plans to build 1,600 settler homes in east Jerusalem was… “an affront, it was an insult but most importantly it undermined this very fragile effort to bring peace to that region,” said David Axelrod, one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisers. “We have just started proximity talks, that is shuttle diplomacy, between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and for this announcement to come at that time was very destructive.” — ConservativeAmerican.org says the only thing insulting and destructive here is this administration’s terrible foreign policy! Obama is no friend of Israel… just like the Rev. Jesse Jackson promised.UPDATE 3/17/2010:The White House says C’mon, this is all just a big misunderstanding!

Obama Administration Has Progressive-Socialists Considering SLAUGHTER Option! 3/15/2010 For apparently the first time in history, the Progressive-Socialist-Democrats are trying to pass a bill through the U.S. House without ever voting on it! The Slaughter Cheat involves the House first passing the bill to “fix” the Senate bill they never approved, and then to simply change the rules for a moment and declare that the approval of the “fix” bill means that they have deemed the Senate bill to have passed the U.S. House. American Freedom and Justice is what will be Slaughtered if Nancy Pelosi turns her chamber into the U.S. Slaughter House!

Obama Flip-Flops on Sweetheart Deals for Congressmen…They’e A-Okay Now!! 3/15/2010 From Fox News: “The White House is backing down from efforts to drop “sweetheart” deals poisoning health care legislation as House Budget Committee Democrats meet Monday to craft a “fix-it” bill that does not yet have a price tag. In a new take on its policy, White House top strategist David Axelrod said President Obama only objects to state-specific arrangements, such as an increase in Medicaid funding for Nebraska, ridiculed as the “cornhusker kickback.” But instead of dropping them, the concept behind those deals could be widened so that all states benefit.” — ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: If buying one state off doesn’t work, try buying them all! Corruption Gone Mad.

Obama Apology Tour in Haiti – No U.S. Flag! 3/16/2010 From the USA Today and the Heritage Foundation: ” The lack of the Stars and Stripes does not sit well with some veterans and servicemembers who say the U.S. government should be proud to fly the flag in Haiti, given the amount of money and manpower the U.S. is donating to help the country recover from the Jan. 12 quake. The Obama administration says flying the flag could give Haiti the wrong idea. “We are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner committed to supporting the government of Haiti on the road to recovery,” the U.S. government’s Haiti Joint Information Center said in response to a query about the flag. It used to be that Americans serving abroad were proud to serve oversees under our nation’s flag. Not the Obama administration.”

Obama Breaking Transparency Promises Frequently 3/17/2010 From the Associated Press: “One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation’s open records law to withhold federal records even as the number of requests for information decline, according to a review by The Associated Press of agency audits about the Freedom of Information Act. Among the most frequently cited reasons for keeping records secret: one that Obama specifically told agencies to stop using so frequently. The Freedom of Information Act exception, known as the “deliberative process” exemption, lets the government withhold records that describe its decision-making behind the scenes. Obama’s directive, memorialized in written instructions from the Justice Department, appears to have been widely ignored.”

Obama Gaffe: Says Woman Upped Her Health Deductible to the “Minimum!” 3/17/2010 In one of his seemingly four-million speeches on health care, President Obama goofed this week saying a woman “Upped her health insurance deductible to the minimum.” Watch video here… [VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

Obama Gaffe: Says Health Costs Will Drop 3,000 Percent! AND You’ll get a raise! 3/17/2010 In one of his seemingly four-million speeches on health care, President Obama promised everyone would get a pay raise! From HotAirPundit comes this: “”How many people are getting insurance throught their jobs right now, raise your hands, alot of those folk , your employer, it’s estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3000 percent so they could give you a raise.” – ConservativeAmerican.org thinks Obama is getting tired and sloppy.

Obama Says He Doesn’t Care About Procedure Used to Pass ObamaCare Nightmare! 3/17/2010 Fox News posts exclusive video of the President saying he doesn’t care about what procedure is used to pass ObamaCare! Watch the Video…

Obama’s Misleading Health Reform Example…His Plan Would Cost this Woman More! 3/17/2010 The Publius website catches this one: “cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote the president she gave up her health insurance after it rose to $8,500 a year. Obama repeatedly has cited that letter from a self-employed cleaning worker who lives in the Cleveland suburb to illustrate the urgency of the massive overhaul.” And what would happen to this woman under Obamacare? $8,500 is where the 40% excise tax on “cadillac insurance plans” kicks in… So this poor woman’s insurance would not have been $8,500, but instead $11,900. That would sure help her out.”

Is Sestak Deal Obama’s Watergate Scandal? “JOBSGATE”

3/17/2010 – As we note in the scandal on Mr. Messina dated 2/28/2010, the Obama Administration may have broken the law by offering jobs to people if they promised NOT to run for office. Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator reports on the “Jobsgate” timeline. “Now, the heat begins to rise as Arlen Specter steps into the middle of all this on Friday. It should be recalled here that Specter is not just Sestak’s opponent. He is a former Philadelphia district attorney and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Asked last week about Sestak’s charge by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Specter replies: “That’s a very, very serious charge. It’s a big black smear without the specifications. But I’m telling you it is a federal crime punishable by jail, and anybody who wants to say that ought to back it up. Listen, Congressman Sestak has gotten a lot of political mileage out of that, and it’s really an attack on the administration… In a blink, Specter has raised the stakes here. What we are now talking about is the potential for a significant unraveling of the Obama White House even as their biggest domestic agenda item, health care, sucks in most of the media oxygen. If in fact Sestak is telling the truth, if in fact the Denver Post story about Andrew Romanoff is correct — and neither Sestak nor Romanoff reported these offers to federal authorities — Specter is saying both could in fact do jail time for committing a felony. ” UPDATE 3/25/2010:Rep. Issa Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate this Felony!!!

Obama Caught in Another Lie: ObamaCare Nightmare will Increase Your Costs! 3/17/2010 Capitol Hill Blue reports, “There’s no question premiums are still going to keep going up,” said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research clearinghouse on the health care system. “There are pieces of reform that will hopefully keep them from going up as fast. But it would be miraculous if premiums actually went down relative to where they are today.” The statistics Obama based his claims on come from two sources. In both cases, the caveats got left out. A report for the Business Roundtable, an association of big company CEOs, was the source for the claim that employers could save $3,000 per worker on health care costs, the White House said. Issued in November, the report looked generally at proposals that Democrats were considering to curb health care costs, concluding they had the potential to significantly reduce future increases. But the analysis didn’t consider specific legislation, much less the final language being tweaked this week.”

Holder Failed to Give Senate the Whole Truth! 3/17/2010 From Reuters News: “Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday. Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an “enemy combatant.”

Brett Baier Catches Obama in Yet Another Lie 3/18/2010 Ace of Spades HQ reports: ” This is the first time anyone in the press has challenged Obama on his dishonest claim that the cuts to Medicare can simultaneously be used to “strengthen” Medicare and also expand coverage to 30 million new people. Paul Ryan mentioned this during the summit, but Obama ignored the question… First, he claims that “nobody’s claiming” that this fixes the 38 trillion unfunded liability gap. But that’s not true at all — he’s claiming that, for one. He continuously says that Medicare is going bankrupt without his supposed reform, but with his reform, it apparently won’t. Under pointed questioning, he walks his grand claims back to the is that his reform “doesn’t weaken Medicare.” Well! That’s a lot different than claims the reform “strengthens the finances of Medicare,” isn’t it?”

Biden Gaffe- Says God Rest Her Soul About a Living Woman! 3/18/2010 AP says Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day…one problem. She’s still alive!

Obama Creates Green-Tech Jobs…OVERSEAS!!! 3/19/2010 Fox & Friends (Dana Perino was the Fox, Steve and Brian were the Friends today) reports that 79% of the billions in Obama economic stimulus money for green job creation was spent to create jobs OVERSEAS!! Most of the money spent so far has gone toward purchasing equipment like solar panels and items needed for those giant wind turbines and nearly all of that money is spent overseas. I don’t remember them telling us this “must have” stimulus to save OUR economy would be spent creating jobs OVERSEAS!

Obama Telling Democrats Health Reform Could Ruin His Presidency! 3/19/2010 Republican John Boehner says President Barack Hussein Obama is telling Democrats in congress if they don’t pass his ObamaCare Nightmare, it will ruin his Presidency. So, I guess Obama agrees with Jim DeMint now! If health reform fails, it really will be his Waterloo! If God would be so kind as to make that happen, we would be forever grateful! Reports today say the Progressive-Socialist-Democrats have just two more votes to buy by Sunday in order to pass this Socialist takeover of 1/6th of the nation’s economy. Let’s see, we could let the Socialists takeover and preserve the Obama Presidency, or we could pressure real Democrats to vote NO and give up the chance of having Obama on Mount Rushmore. Hmmmmm. Don’t need long to think about that one! Remember Obama insisting that the health care reform debate was not about him? That was just another lie. It’s all about the “O”… Obama!

Obama Using Americorps to Indoctrinate! 3/19/2010 Pamela Geller has this one at BigGovernment: “AmeriCorps (can Obama pronounce the second syllable?) is the primary machinery for his youth army. And there is huge dough behind it — yours and mine. And that money is now being used to mandate service programs that indoctrinate our children to work for “the common good.” America is the most beneficent nation in the world. We give the most to charity (though Republicans far out-give Democrats), and whenever there is a disaster in the world, we are there. On a local level, we donate a ton of money to community programs. So why is service being mandated? Mandated service is slavery. Voluntary service is empathy…”

Obama Flip-Flops on Caring About Process! He Used To! 3/19/2010 President Obama told Brett Baier of Fox the other night that he can’t be too worried about what process is used. However, in the past, he said, “I’m a strong believer that uh, the way you change our uh, policies is by including the American people in the process. Uh, that that’s how democracy has to work. If you’ve got barriers that lock in insiders, then you get dysfunctional policies.”

Obama’s Socialist Takeover of Student Loan Business!! 3/20/2010 Without debate or discussion, the Obama administration has inserted the socialist takeover of the student loan business into the healthcare takeover bill! Conservative American Paul Ryan tells Fox News the move will make the U.S. Department of Education into the 7th largest Bank in the country! More centralization of power! This is just the latest move to institutionalize the Progressive-Socialist-Democrat party and make it into the official state religion!

ObamaCare Final Bill Omits Obama Promises # 1 3/20/2010 The Associated Press reports the President promised to give federal authorities the power to block “unreasonable” insurance rate hikes. “Yet when Democrats unveiled the final incarnation of their health care bill this week, the proposal was nowhere to be found.”

ObamaCare Final Bill Omits Obama Promises # 2 3/20/2010 Obama said he wanted to include a Republican idea from Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma in “his” plan. It’s not there either. AP says the plan was “to send investigators disguised as patients to hospitals in search of waste, fraud and abuse.”

ObamaCare Signing Breaks 5-Day Promise (AGAIN) 3/23/2010 The New American points out, “President Obama’s statement that he will sign the bill into law as early as Tuesday morning, contradicts his assurance of transparency, known as the “Sunlight Before Signing” promise: “Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

ObamaCare Signing Breaks “Not One Dime!” Tax Promise SEVEN TIMES! – #1 3/23/2010 In a great report by John Kartch at Americans for Tax Reform, details are provided on seven ways the President is breaking his promise not to increase taxes on those making less than $250,000 year. SEVEN TIMES he breaks the promise in ONE BILL!! First, “President Barack Obama’s central campaign promise – a “firm pledge” not to raise “any form” of taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year – is about to be shattered when Obama signs the healthcare bill into law. Individual Mandate Excise Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/Jan 2014*): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following (page 71 of manager’s amendment updates Reid bill): (From $495 to $1,485) Exemptions for religious objectors, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line, members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS).”

ObamaCare Signing Breaks “Not One Dime!” Tax Promise SEVEN TIMES! – #2 3/23/2010 Also from Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) “Employer Mandate Tax (Page 348/Sec. 1513/Jan 2014*): Small business owners pay their business taxes on their personal 1040 forms. This tax does not exempt startup small business owners even if they make less than $250,000. If the employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $750 for all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more employees. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer)…”

ObamaCare Signing Breaks “Not One Dime!” Tax Promise SEVEN TIMES! – #5 3/23/2010 AND… “Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax” (Page 1999/Sec. 9005/$14 bil/Jan 2011): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Indexed to inflation after 2011 (added on page 363 of manager’s amendment). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education…”

ObamaCare Signing Breaks “Not One Dime!” Tax Promise SEVEN TIMES! – #6 3/23/2010 AND… “Medical Itemized Deductions Cap (Page 2034/Sec. 9013/$15.2 bil/Jan 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction if the total cost of the expenses reduces the filer’s income by 7.5%. The new provision would impose a threshold of 10%. This new tax will most adversely affect early retirees and the catastrophically ill. Waived for 65+ taxpayers in 2013-2016 only.”

Liberals Say ObamaCare Deal Goes Back on Obama Hyde Amendment Promise 3/23/2010 You know it’s bad when even the Progressive-Liberals say President Obama is breaking promises. From Meg White at the liberal BuzzFlash comes this unhappiness with the Executive Order on Abortion Bart Stupak was promised: “Even more galling is the fact the Candidate Obama said he was opposed to the Hyde Amendment when he was running for president. So, now that he is president, why would the man functionally cement the provision into law? What happened to the candidate who said he believes that “the federal government should not use its dollars to intrude on a poor woman’s decision whether to carry to term or to terminate her pregnancy and selectively withhold benefits because she seeks to exercise her right of reproductive choice in a manner the government disfavors”? Obama was right back then. But now, with the full weight of the White House behind Hyde, Stupak is welcome to oppose my tax dollars being spent to allow a low-income woman access to a legal abortion. But I won’t be able to stop those same dollars from going to fund, say, an illegal war.” UPDATE 3/23/2010Ed Morrissey at Hot Air also points out some view this “rule by executive order” as a violation of Obama’s previously broken promise (see Broken Promise # 238: Obama Fails to Consult Congress- 3/24/9) not to use signing statements to get his way.

Biden Gaffe – Uses “F” Bomb Again! 3/23/2010 Leave it Joey Buttafuoco Biden. As he introduced the President today to sign the Socialist Nationalization of Health Care into law, he says to him (while the mic is on!) “This is a big F***ing deal!” Obama seems to smile and nod in agreement before heading to the podium to claim victory.Watch the video here.

Obama Flip-Flops on Using the Word “Victory!” 3/23/2010 Obama used to say, “I’m always worried about using the word, ‘Victory.’” However, that’s when the war was in Afghanistan. When it’s the healthcare war he has waged on the American people, the word apparently no longer conjures up images in his mind of the Japanese surrendering after World War II. Today, in signing his Socialist takeover of healthcare, Obama said, “And of course, this victory was also made possible by the painstaking work of members of this administration.” Perhaps you remember Obama uttering the earlier quote. From our Official Obama Administration Scandals List (Page 11, scandal #544 dated 7/24/9).

Obama Told Joe the Plumber the Truth: ObamaCare is Scheme to Redistribute the Wealth!! 3/24/2010 Investors Business Daily is equating the ObamaCare Law with “Enacting a Lie!” They write, “Sunday’s vote exposed the ugly truth that ObamaCare is not really about health care at all. It’s all about who pays for it and who controls it — in effect a massive wealth-redistribution scheme. Those who believe this will lead to some medical nirvana will likely be disappointed. Fact is, this poorly designed monstrosity will lead to lower-quality care, higher costs, fewer practicing physicians, higher taxes and fewer jobs. We’ve done more than 150 editorials in the past year or so documenting these problems. Democrats surely understand them. Yet, despite a recent CNN poll showing that 59% of Americans oppose ObamaCare, Congress approved it anyway. Why? Because it’s not really about health care. It’s the largest wealth grab in American history, masquerading as health care “reform,” another step in the socialization of Americans’ income in the name of “fairness” and “spread(ing) the wealth around,” as Obama himself has put it. That’s why we call the program a lie.”

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 1 – Middle Class Will Pay More! 3/24/2010 Susan Ferrechio at the Washington Examiner does a great job of outlining 10 things President Obama told us health reform would accomplish that are not, in fact, going to take place. First on her list? So much for helping Main Street, the Middle Class will pay more under ObamaCare! “the new bill will actually make it more costly for middle class families to buy health insurance by forcing those who shop on the individual market to buy generous, but expensive plans mandated under the new law. Middle class families earning $88,000 or more a year won’t qualify for health care subsidies. A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.”

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 2 – Premiums Go Up for Half of America! 3/24/2010 Again from Susan Ferrechio at the Washington Examiner: “Health care premiums for those in the individual insurance market will rise 10 percent to 13 percent by 2016 under the plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While the cost of premiums will be subsidized with taxpayer dollars for 57 percent of those enrolled in the new government-run insurance exchanges, the 43 percent of enrollees who do not qualify for assistance will have to pay higher costs.”

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 3 – Where’s the Jobs? 3/24/2010 Susan Ferrechio reports: “The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, found that the new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year… The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, says that the health care reform bill will create “between 2.5 million to 4 million additional jobs over the next 10 years.” And there’s more…

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 4 – Abortion – Yeah, It’s in There 3/24/2010 “…pro-life groups say the executive order does not carry the force of a law and will do nothing to curb the provision in the bill they believe will allow taxpayer dollars to cover the procedure. “The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order…” and….

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 5 – Millions Will Lose Employer Health Plans! 3/24/2010 “…The new health care law will impose a list of benefits each health care plan will have to offer if they are to remain in business. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates that about 4 million people would lose their employer-based plan…” and…

3/24/2010 “…The bill makes $528 billion in cuts to Medicare, including a $136 billion reduction for Medicare Advantage. The Medicare Advantage cuts will force 4.8 million seniors off the popular plan by 2019. An additional $23 billion in cuts to Medicare will come from a panel charged with slashing Medicare spending.” – ConservativeAmerican.org: This one bugs me. Dems who only get news from nightly Liberal TV content this is a right-wing lie, that in fact there are no Medicare cuts, only to that “add-on” Medicare Advantage stuff. No big deal, they say. Wrongo! After decades of enduring the political BS of Progressives scaring seniors into thinking those wascally wepublicans are going to take away everything from them… turns out it’s the Progressive Democrats who are DOING IT!! Susan Ferrechio still has a few more in her report…

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 7 – The Bill Won’t Pay For Itself 3/24/2010 Another broken promise from Team Obama. The Washington Examiner: “The CBO found that the bill would reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years, but the savings was achieved by leaving out a $208 billion provision lawmakers will have to enact later to ensure doctors are adequately paid for treating Medicare patients. When the “doc fix” is included in the bill, it runs $59 billion in the red over the next decade. And former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said that “if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games” the 10-year deficit would exceed $560 billion.” – ConservativeAmerican.org: The whole thing is a dang game to these Progressive Pretend-to-Cares! A game to destroy our nation. They’ve nationalized mortgages, mortgage insurance, the auto industry, banks, student loans and the bill allows them to take over health care. Repeal the bill! Obama broke his promise not to sign any health care legislation that adds to the deficit. Just another lie! Jon Kraushar at Fox asks, “What big government entitlement program has ever: • Reduced the deficit? • Only cost what it says it will and lowered the costs of goods and services? • Improved quality? • Enhanced efficiency? • Decreased delays? • Fostered more choice and competition? • Featured competent bureaucracy? • Operated with honest accounting? • Avoided fraud, abuse, waste, maddening red tape, and higher taxes?”

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 8 – State Taxes Will Go Up Too! 3/24/2010 Unfunded mandates gone mad! Ferrechio notes, “The health care reform bill expands Medicaid to all non-elderly individuals up to 133 percent of the poverty line. The federal government would foot the bill for this expansion, but only until 2016. Beginning in 2017, states would gradually begin paying a portion of it.” And… [VIDEO REMOVED]

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 9 – Long Health Care Lines 3/24/2010 If you thought the lines at Disney were bad, wait till you see this! The report says, “46 percent of physicians said they would quit or retire if the Democratic health care reform bill becomes law. The survey noted that “even if a much smaller percentage such as ten, 15, or 20 percent are pushed out of practice over several years at a time when the field needs to expand by over 20 percent, this would be severely detrimental to the quality of the health care system.” – ConservativeAmerican.org notes, So much for the broken promise, “If you like your doc, you can keep her.” Yeah, right. Jon Kraushar at Fox asks, “How will we deal with a doctor shortage caused by Obamacare, particularly when doctors are being asked to treat 32 million more Americans now insured by the new law?” One more from the Ferrechio piece…

ObamaCare Inconvenient Truth # 10 – Raising Taxes During the Recession! 3/24/2010 “The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on insurance plans costing $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. It also raises revenue by increasing the Medicare payroll tax for those earning more than $200,000, plus a new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income for these earners. The bill also imposes new taxes on drug makers, medical device manufacturers and health insurers that are likely to be passed on to consumers.”

Obama Screws Up – Pre-Existing Coverage For Kids is NOT in the Bill! 3/24/2010 Associated Press: “Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children. Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage. Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday. However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year. Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That’s the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems. Obama’s public statements have conveyed the impression that the new protections for kids were more sweeping and straightforward.” Rush Limbaugh discussed the AP story on his show today.

On 9/4/11, ConservativeAmerican.org discontinued the list. It was simply too much work to keep up with all of the Team Obama lies and broken promises. And, the majority of voters were not even willing to listen to the truth about Obama. As history taught us, President Obama was easily reelected in 2012. People still believed the “If you like you plan, you can keep it” lie. Only after the President broke that promise, one that impacted tens of millions of Americans, did citizens start to wake up and realize who the REAL Barack Obama is. This list is presented to all of those now willing to look into Obama’s past.

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Amazing historical data on 2300+ Team Obama lies, broken promises & flip flops! Hundreds you never even heard about! Check out the NEW Obama Scandals List for recent scandals. The scandals below are the Legacy of Lies Obama leaves behind from his youth thru 9/4/11.